Re: Python speed

From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Python speed
Date	2015-08-07 23:57 +0000
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On 2015-08-07, rogerh906@gmail.com <rogerh906@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can anyone compare PyNum calculation speed to Fortran?
>
> This is for a number crunching program working with large files.

Well I can tell you how the numerical analysis and data visualization
programs _I_ use to write would compare to Fortran: The Python
programs were infinitely faster than Fortran because the probability I
could have gotten equivelent Fortran programs to work before the data
became moot was pretty much zero.

On a more serious note, almost all of the heavy lifting in the
programs I wrote (array operations, curve fitting, Delaunay
triangulation, etc.) was all done by libraries written in Fortan and
C.  So I doubt the difference between Fortran and Python would have
mattered (assuming I _could_ have written equivalent programs in
Fortran).

-- 
Grant

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  Re: Python speed Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-07 23:57 +0000

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